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Leadership Agility® Change Lab

Change and complexity are everywhere

How effective is your organization in responding to these conditions?

Your organization’s agility—its ability to respond effectively to change

and complexity—hinges on the agility of your leaders.

Research has shown that a staggering percentage of organizational

change efforts fail to achieve the desired results. Why?

It’s because the change-management skill-sets of the recent past are

no longer sufficient for a new era of unprecedented turbulence.

Simply put, the great majority of leaders aren’t as agile as they need

to be.

Through our in-depth research, building on decades of work with

leaders, we’ve discovered the new mindsets and skill-sets needed for

sustained success in today’s complex, rapidly changing world.

The good news is that, given the proper learning environment, any

manager can begin using a more agile approach and start improving

change project results right away.

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Three levels of leadership agility

The Leadership Agility Change Lab is based on our

award-winning book Leadership Agility. The book has

been called “a breakthrough in thinking about leader-

ship competencies” and the “new gold standard in the

leadership field.”

In the Change Lab, you’ll learn and gain experience

with three “levels of agility” for leading change:

Expert: Leading incremental changes by utilizing

your authority and expertise.

Achiever: Leading by motivating others and gaining

buy-in to achieve strategic change objectives.

Catalyst: Developing your organization’s agility and

leadership culture, to sustain high-performance in

an unpredictable environment.

The Change Lab experience

The Leadership Agility Change Lab is a 2-day action

learning program for managers and executives—a highly

interactive, roll-up-your sleeves experience, focused on

your own real-life change project.

Through a rich mix of practical learning experiences—

small group work, peer coaching, individual reflection,

group discussion—you’ll receive specific feedback and

coaching, and practice new, more agile ways to frame

and lead change.

Outcomes

You’ll emerge from the Change Lab with:

A multifaceted action plan for your change initiative.

An individualized plan for adopting a more agile mind-

set and practicing more agile leadership behavior.

“Having a new leadership level to aspire to will frame all my interactions moving forward.”

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Using the Leadership Agility Compass

In the Change Lab you’ll learn a practical and illuminating

tool to use when leading change—the Leadership Agility

Compass.

Leading change in today’s world requires four types of

leadership agility:

With context-setting agility you can frame your

change initiatives with greater clarity and, when need-

ed, with greater breadth and depth.

With stakeholder agility you can put yourself more

fully in the shoes of your stakeholders and create

greater stakeholder alignment.

With creative agility you can get to the root causes of

the problems your initiative needs to solve and

generate more creative solutions.

With self-leadership agility you can consciously use

your change initiatives to accelerate your growth as a

leader.

In the Change Lab, you’ll move through modules on all four types of agility.

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Participant feedback

“Excellent! The Leadership Agility Change Lab is one of the best leadership training work-shops I’ve ever experienced.”

“I learned the diverse skill-set, awareness and sensitivities needed for really effective leadership.”

“One of the most valuable things about the workshop was under-standing the Leadership Agility Compass and how to use it.”

“This is the best workshop I’ve attended in the past three years!”

“The ‘context-setting’ exercise transformed how I framed my whole change initiative.”

“The facilitators were very knowledgeable, clear, astute, and timely in their comments.”

“I loved the practical exercises for

creative agility.”

“I learned new skills I can use in pivotal conversations.”

“I learned the power that comes from self-leadership.”

“One of the most valuable parts of the Change Lab is the one-on-one peer coaching with other participants.”

“I learned how my power style influences the flow of a meeting, and how I can step back and re-frame to make them more effective.”

“This workshop was much more productive than other profession-al training experiences. It was very useful and is likely to have more potent and lasting out-comes.”

“Use of my own change initiative throughout the workshop made everything relevant, saved time, and will help me move quickly to apply what I’ve learned in the real world.”

“The emphasis on reflective action will help me continue to apply what I learned in the workshop.”

“I will apply what I’ve learned more so than with previous workshops. Why? Because there is a valuable model underlying this workshop, and the workshop is designed in a way that really engaged me with this model.”

“What I valued most about the Change Lab was the ‘team spirit’ we came away with.”

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Contact ChangeWise

ChangeWise is a Boston-based organization

and leadership development firm with an

extensive network of global affiliates that

allows us to scale client projects.

ChangeWise provides both in-house and open-

enrollment versions of the Leadership Agility

Change Lab.

Licensed Facilitators of the Leadership Agility

Change Lab are located in the US, Canada,

England, Norway and Sweden.

For more information about the Leadership

Agility Change Lab and what it can do for you

and your organization, contact ChangeWise at

dw@changewise.biz

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